This is the time of year when, although our personal energies may be focused on home and family for the holidays, our business energies leapfrog over the year's end: forecasts and budgets for 2012 loom large. What trends should we capitalize upon? What risks can we plan to dodge?Forecasting - both business and weather… Read More »

Taking a couple days' break after the PMO Symposium in Orlando, I've had a chance to reflect on the messages I heard at the conference, and one message that struck home - and which I heard in more than one presentation - was that organizational change management is the future of the PMO.In… Read More »

Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.Nationwide Insurance's IT function found that, while a PMO can improve project delivery, ten or more PMOs scattered across the enterprise, with over 300 project managers all pursuing projects in different ways, led to inefficiencies.The improvements in enterprise IT service delivery realized over just… Read More »

Our Director of Client Relations, Johanna Mickel (pictured below) kindly sent me her notes from the speech by Tom Peters that rounded out last week's Gartner Summit ... and I was pleased to find that Peters -- despite keynoting back-to-back conferences on the technical aspects of PPM, governance and enterprise architecture -- remains focused on… Read More »

The Gartner Summit going on this week in San  Diego is apparently the place to be, and since I am not there, I thought our readers would appreciate an inside view of the proceedings from someone who is.The Summit, with the subtitle "Embracing Uncertainty and Change: The Key to Driving Value in Turbulent… Read More »

There were so many great questions asked in the webinar on project recovery presented by Kent Crawford in March that he ran out of time to answer them all. The remaining questions - and recorded answers - are posted on our new Project Recovery Resource Center.As I listened to the questions and answers, one… Read More »

You heard it here first: How about a new knowledge area for project management? and the corresponding new section in PMI's PMBOK® Guide? with, naturally, its own section on the PMP exam:"The next 20 questions examine your understanding of how projects create business value for the larger organization."Nothing could be more needed,… Read More »

Chatting with my boss the other day, the term "burning questions" came up more than once, which struck me as significant. I jotted it in the margin of my notes and later, in the search field of my browser.To my surprise, Burning Question turned out to be the title of a new book about… Read More »